"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

" All that the Father giveth Me, shall come to Me, and him that cometh unto Me I will in no wise cast out." -John 6:37 [KJV] By how many ways does Satan gain advantage over us? Though he cannot engage us in his drudgery, as cooks and scullions in a kitchen, yet he often employs us, to nurse those peevish, deformed, ill-favoured brats, corrupt reason, unbelief, slavish fear, etc. And he gives us no other wages for our service, but distress, dejection, and discontent. O ye children of God, instead of nursing such a vile brood, why do you not rather poison them by divine truths, and dash them in pieces in divine promises, flowing from God’s everlasting love to you . Mark the process of it.  (1st.) Because the Lord loved you, He gave you to His Son. This implies some secret transaction between God the Father, and His Son Jesus, in covenant purposes. ALL, whom the Father loved with an everlasting love, and chose in the morning of eternity, He committed into Christ’s ...

For 18 months William Tyndale was imprisoned in Vilvorde, not far from Brussels, Belgium. A part of a letter that he wrote from his prison cell states: “[I] suffer extremely from cold in the head, being afflicted with a perpetual catarrh*, which is considerably increased in the cell; also a piece of cloth to patch my leggings.  My overcoat has been worn out.  My shirts are also worn out.  I also wish his [the jailer’s] permission to have a candle in the evening; for it is wearisome to sit alone in the dark.” After this he was led forth from the castle prison to the stake where he was strangled to death and his body burned.  Why?  Because he dared to translate the original Scriptures into the English language so that the common people might be able to read God’s word.  It is to the work of this man that 5/6ths to 9/10ths of the KJV Bible is attributed. I think the KJV Bible is the greatest translation of the Bible there will ever be for the E...

"And hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?" -Isaiah 51:13 [KJV] Pause, my soul, over those sweet expostulating words of thy God. Wherefore should the fear of man bring a snare? How much needless anxiety should I spare myself, could I but live, amidst all my changeable days and changeable circumstances, upon my unchangeable God. Now, mark what thy God saith of thy unreasonable and ill-grounded fears— "Where is the fury of the oppressor?" Can he take from thee thy Jesus? No!   Shouldest thou lose all thy earthly comforts, Jesus ever liveth, and Jesus is thine. Can he afflict thee, if God saith no? That is impossible. Neither men nor devils can oppress without His permission. And sure enough thou art, thy God and Saviour will never allow any thing to thy hurt; for all things must work for good. And canst thou lessen the oppressor's fury by anxi...

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth." -Romans 1:16 [KJV] What is meant by the word "power?" It is a term much used in the New Testament. "The kingdom of God , " it is declared, "is not in word, but in power ; " and true faith is said to "stand not in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God . " What, then, is power? It is a divine operation that God himself puts forth in the soul. It cannot be described by words, nor explained so as to be understood by our mental capacity. It must be felt to be known; and must be realised in a man's own soul before he can have any spiritual conception of it. But "Thy people," we read, "shall be willing in the day of Thy power , " (Psalm 110:3.) And when the gospel does come to the soul by the application of the blessed Spirit, and a divine power accompanies it, though the power...